The pyrolysis of octafluorocyclobutane—Revisited

✍ Scribed by S. H. Bauer; S. Javanovic

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0538-8066
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4601(1998)30:3<171::aid-kin1>3.0.co;2-p

✦ Synopsis

A high-pressure, high-temperature reactor unit was developed to test batch-wise inter-conversions of hydrocarbons. A major ambiguity characterizes this reactor, as it does all similar units that have been described, determination of the time-temperature profile for the reacting mixture. Here we report on a solution to this problem-use of a "chemical thermometer," based on the kinetics of dissociation of C 4 F 8 . We propose a revised set of rate constants that permit calibration of the reactor operation.